What happened to /home?

[Glen Barber]

Hi

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +0000, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote:
>> > Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone.  Well...not
>> > exactly..but for all intents and purposes.  The system isn't seeing it
>> > although I can see it when I cd to /.  But if I try and cd to /home from
>> > there the system tells me "home:Not a directory."  What happened, and
>> > what can I do about it?
>> >
>> > Rem
>>
>> Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is busted? What
>> it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login as a regular user,
>> what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged in?
>>
>
> I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is
> / and then it goes back to the prompt.  Output of 'ls -ld /home is:
>
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home
>

What does 'file /home' say?

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Glen Barber